MediaTek LinkIt is a collection of development platforms designed for the prototyping of wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and last year they started with LinkIt ONE board based on Mediatek MT2501 “Aster” micro-controller and featuring WiFi, Bluetooth, GPSD and GSM/GPRS connectivity. Mediatek Labs has now launched two new LinkIt board, namely LinkIt Smart 7688 and LinkIt Smart 7688 DUO, both powered by Mediatek MT7688 MIPS processor and running OpenWRT, with the latter also adding an Atmel ATmega32U4 for Arduino compatibility.

Documentation for both board is pretty extensive with Getting Started Guides, a developer’s guide, tutorials, and information about the HDK (Hardware Developer Kit) , which is simply call “board”, including schematics and PCB layout (PDF only). The company also released the bootloader and firmware binary files, as well as an OpenWRT SDK. The boards support both Linux and OS X for development with C/C++, while Python, and Node.js are also supported on Windows. Arduino IDE is also available for the DUO version, and by default MT7688 MPU and Atmel MCU communicate over UART with applications code on the former, and I/Os and sensors managed by the latter. You can access all these resources on LinkIt Smart 7688 page on MediaTek Labs, with some code also found on Mediatek Labs’ Github account, and Seeed Studio’s Wiki. You could also read my own little Linkit Smart 7688 Getting Started Guide.

LinkIt Smart 7688 boards are distributed by Seeed Studio, and you can purchase Mediatek LinkIt Smart 7688 for $12.90 and LinkIt Smart 7688 DUO for $15.90.

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